Juries (Amendment) Act 1983 (ACT)

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Juries (Amendment) Ordinance 1983

No. 6 of 1983

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 7 April 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

GARETH EVANS

Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Juries Ordinance 1967

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Juries (Amendment) Ordinance

1983}

Principal Ordinance

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Juries Ordinance

1967}

3. After section 51 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is

inserted:

Sheriff shall consider the application and may grant payment to the applicant

Payment of juror's expenses

"51 A. (1) Where—

(a)	a person incurs expense during his service as a juror, being expense which he would not have incurred but for that service; and
(b)	that expense was incurred in circumstances arising after the person was sworn as a juror, being circumstances that would have constituted a sufficient cause for the person to be excused attendance on the Court under this Ordinance if they had arisen before he was so sworn,

the person may apply to the Sheriff for payment to the person of an amount

equal to the amount of that expense.

" (2) Where an application is made to the Sheriff under sub-section (1), the

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of the whole of the amount of the expense incurred by the applicant or such
lesser amount as the Sheriff considers reasonable.

"(3) A person who is aggrieved by a decision of the Sheriff under sub-section (2) may apply in writing to a Magistrate for a review of the decision.".

Regulations

4. Section 52 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting "the last

preceding section" and substituting "section 51".

NOTES

1.    Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 April 1983.

2.    No. 47,1967 as amended by No. 65,1977; No. 46,1978; No. 39,1979; No. 37,1981.